Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-09
MIR, BoRuCK,s DISGUST.
Indecencies of the Santa Cruz Beach De-
nounced by an Editor.

nOunceQ Dy M ASuitofs
NJ. D. Boruck, of the Spirit of the Times.
has been visiting Santa Cruz, and must
have been disguised with some things he
saw there, since be writes as follows to mis-
newspaper
We neve. bathe-that is, in the ocean
Shaped as we are, il is q wonder we do not
disport every day in the briny deep, and
shaped zs Others are, our wonder and aston
ishmens is that they ever take the fatal
plunge We are not stgaight-laced; we can
stand almost anything and everything, in
fact; and why shoElAn' I we, when we have
puJ,ished journal in San Francisco for
thity-iive years But with all the blush
ing effrontery that that gives US, there are
some things that our pure and unsophisti-
'czted nature revolts at 1t is the absolute
absence of all 'aecency and self-respect on
the part OF tife'nale bathers particularly on
Santa Cruz s sea-girt shore.
We would like to be behind the massive
drawing-room doors of some of our diiie-
tanti, when several of their gentlemen (?)
callers can.e in arrayed in garments SINH
lar to their bathing suits, seating them
selves CT dtshGbille in chairs, or divans,
| sofas ard what not, and one or two sprawl
| ing on their abdominal regions on the
| floor IN order to hold sweet converse with
| the budding ladies of the house 1t would,
as matter of course, be simply revolving.
Well, we witnessed Just such scenes at
| Santa Cruz, and just as appropriate. We
saw great burly, spawned, husky animals
| in the shape OF men. almost naked, that por-
| tien of them which was covered being en-
cased i'll gauze of painful texture so far as
| its thin quality was concerned, sitting
alongside of tenderly brought up girls and
young women. in conversation, or lying
upon their bellies in the sand at their feet
| engaged in a similar pleasant pastime-
and with no objections from the parents or
guardians of the ladies interested. II was
ts.mply beastly.
| At the East there are bathiDg-houses
erected so closely to the water that ladies,
and young girls particularly, can step out
of their bathing-houses into the sea, return
to them after the bath, dress and emerge
therefrom fully panoplied in their regular
garments. But at Santa Cruz the female
bather is compelled to make her way
through a crowd, dodge horses, carriages,
carts and buggies in order to reach the sea,
ana on returning the condition of that
woman is Infinitely worse than when she
| went in. Of course there are bathers OF
yoluptuous form, magnificent busts, small
feet, handsome faces, ankles well-turned,
arms as white as alabaster; teeth shining
through lips as II set in coral; the whole
arrayed in neatly fitting, modest and ap-
propriate dress, vino delight to show as
naively as possible what favoring nature
has done for them in making up the
human form divine; but we submit that
| even those ladies do not wish to be photo
graphed as they leave the waves and make
their devious way to their dressing-rooms
1t seems TO US there should be some regu-
lation on the beach at Santa Cruz that
would conduce to change or an improve
ment in the matter of which we speak
And the same should receive the earnest
attention of those who control Del Monte
1t should be 8 rule, and insisted upon, that
every man going into the tanks there, and
those bathing at Santa Cruz, should veal
bathing suits covering the whole body from
the head down, and thus put an end to the
repulsive practice that pertains in both
places